Ashley You've Got To Promise Us That You Won't Die, Because We Need You, And Honestly I Think That She

also to anyone who cares i'm giving in and liking alastair

i hate tor even more upon rereading why is she even here

i love valec i want so much more content about him

jace dreaming of clary essentially showing up in a schoolgirl outfit will never not be funny

the prologue being a whole section on its own is such a cool choice i love it

can confirm

that shit hurted

I would never recommend reading tsc in chronological order nor would I read it in that order myself because reading The Last Hours and The Mortal Instruments so close together would cause massive amounts of psychic damage. reading them six months apart was bad enough. right after each other? I would never wish that on anyone ever

i’ll be honest, i don’t always like the way people talk about what happened to james. i feel like people let themselves be tricked by the supernatural element of the bracelet into thinking that this can’t possibly happen in real life, when the truth is that what happened to him after the bracelet was put on and everything he felt once it was over is indicative of real life experiences. sure, no one is ever gonna put a magical bracelet on your wrist that forces you to love them, but the bracelet is merely a metaphor for real feelings that real people experience when they’re in such a situation: feeling stuck and trapped, feeling like they’re forced to do things they wouldn’t do otherwise. these are feelings james himself explicitly talks about multiple times in the text. he feels ashamed, he feels disgusted with himself, he feels weak for not getting out of it sooner, he feels sick at the thought of talking about what he experienced with anyone, including the people he feels safest with. these are all feelings drawn from the experiences of real life survivors. so whenever you’re tempted to make a joke about the bracelet, or to feel frustrated that he ‘wasn’t even the one to tell cordelia the truth about the bracelet’, or even to say that some other male character would have handled the situation better, please remember that this might be a sensitive topic for some people on your dash. james is fictional, so he’ll never be hurt by what you’re saying, but the people reading your posts are real.

i adore malec as a ship but their hardcore stans take over all the other tags (don't even try to argue bc i can never find a fic with clace that isn't malec centric) and i would genuinely rather chew off my own arm than interact with some of them. y'all were absolutely insufferable.

anyways here have some art of my favourite tsc gays bc i refuse to let them be ruined for me

i'm so so angry at grace and her complete disregard of james' bodily autonomy and consent better be adressed.

like sorry idc if you had a shitty childhood that shit is not acceptable.

so...

am i seriously behind on the chain of iron read? yes.

am i reading? no.

instead i'm thinking about the intricacies of the dynamic between the dhampir and moroi in vampire academy.